Thank you for your constructive comments and meticously pointing out where India lags behind and where our true strengths and contributing characteristics:-)

I will change my mentality immediately – emmmmm – what do I change it to exactly? – as I like the idea of historical glory.

Justforfun

Dr Joshi – seriously – Care to comment on Comment 8 # Point 4? – Look into the credit facilites given to women and how this has really changed lives. .. its not my fault that only Asif spotted my steer on the Nobel Prize! PP could have had a scoop. As I sit on the Nobel Committee I felt, like President Musharaf and his memoirs, “honour bound” not to divulge Mr Yunus’s name before the publishing date , but nevertheless… would be good to hear your views

To be honest after that Bar Girl part, Maximum City slacken’s in pace.

Anyway, I don’t think Mehta is being disparaging of Marathis in the book, the word (Ghatis) came across as affectionate to me. Stop crying now, enough!

Naah, just look at the way he talks about Marathis. “Race of Clerks”, to me he merely represents the attitude of vast section of non-Marathis in Mumbai towards Marathis.

Heh, I love pulling your leg Vikrant, just to get you riled up. I have nothing against Marathis, rest easy. I spent a few days in Nanded and quite liked it and even went to the Shiv Mandir a few hundred miles from there (on Nag Panchmi) and enjoyed it immensely. Never once felt threatened. Though I got talking to a Shiv Sena supporter on the bus to Nanded, which was quite amusing. I have nothing much in common with conservative caste-obsessed north Indians to be honest so that slur is not going to work with me :p

doesnt take away the fact that Communists do indulge in vote-bank politics when it suits them.

It’s not just the Commies. Congress, BJP, BSP, Telugu Desam, Akali Dal etc all do it. Such is Indian politics.

You in turn prove my point about Punjabi-Hindi superiority complex
But I love Malayalees and Tamils!

I haven’t finished Maximum City either yet btw, and to be honest all that stuff about Shiv Sena in there – I know it before. You think I’ve only been introduced to their brand of hatred now? I travelled around India for two months in 2002 don’t forget, just after the riots. Anyway, I don’t think Mehta is being disparaging of Marathis in the book, the word (Ghatis) came across as affectionate to me. Stop crying now, enough!

Vladimir – I have the drought book by Sainath too. Though it’s a bit too obsessed with individual stories for my liking.

Having started Sen’s book, I get the feeling once again (after Identity) that he is a bit too verbose sometimes.

I thought PP was a quality site, i stand corrected.

Never claimed that they did, Comrade Hundal. Shiv Sena may be facist but that doesnt take away the fact that Communists do indulge in vote-bank politics when it suits them.

Comrade, ever wonder why Taslima Nasrin is banned in West Bengal?

Kerala & WB governments favour minority owned educational institutes, but place lot of restrictions on Hindu owned institutes. Ramkrishan Mission was forced to declare itself as a non-Hindu sect in Bengal to stop bureaucratic harrasment.

@Uncelji: Stop unprovoked name calling.

I think my point about Marathis above is becoming truer day by day!

I can play the game too Hundal. You in turn prove my point about Punjabi-Hindi superiority complex. Your ignorant generalisations expose your bigotry Sunny. Marathis may be unsophisticated Hindutvadi warmongering deccan rats, but i’m proud to be one.

If Mr-who-doesnt-know-a-fig-about-Marathis cares to look beyond his prejudices he will find that Marathis are normal fucking humans too… heck in some ways they are more progressive than you caste obessed North Indians. My Rajput family turned their backs on me for being a half-breed, Marathi side took me as one of their own.

I dont demand apology, i demand dignity.

I also bought P Sainath’s ‘Every body loves a good drought’, which I would definitely recommend, though it can get repetitive at times!

But Kerela has survived because the people of that state are hardworking and many of them are working in the gulf countries from where they send back to thier homes large sums of money. It is through this NRI money that Kerela economy is booming. Otherwise the local industry is nowhere. There are no jobs, no infrastructure.

The stupid Kerela government has even banned Pepsi and Coca Cola. It is only a question of time before these communists ban life itself.

Both.

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It’s suprising how interested Vikrant is in politics for someone that young. When I was his age, I was far more interested in the antics of Dwayne Wayne & Whitley, along with watching Rough Guide to the World starring “Our Only Man on British TV during the late 80s” Sankha Guha. And posing around in my “high-tops” basketball boots.

Communist and Islamists run West Bengal and Kerala in almost dictatorial fashion.
And BJP run things in a nicer way do they? Shiv Sena believe more in democracy do they? Gimme a break. As Uncleji has already pointed out, Kerela has an impeccable social record among India.

Kerala has highest literacy rate in the country, highest life expectancy, least population growth, lowest infant mortality. Yet has been ruled by Left or Communist governments for most his political history.

“guess the Indian in his blood is now completely diluted with French Champagne and British Whiskey”
Oh Raj how Charmingly facist you are !

Really? India’s literacy rate is 65% which though not something to be proud of, is respectable enough for a country of its size

@Sahil: Google for Indian Union Muslim League and its commie cohorts in Kerala. AS FOR West Bengal, it has been the communist state govt, that has tacitly supported illegal immigrantion from Bangladesh. These legalised illegals form their loyal support base.

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I really pity Sunny’s knowledge of India. I guess the Indian in his blood is now completely diluted with French Champagne and British Whiskey.

I would like to tell Sunny that India has one of the HIGHEST illetracy rates in the world. Even Sub-Sahara African nations have done a better job of educating their citizens than India has. Thanks to the 60 years of “leftist misrule” today more than 50% of Indians can’t even read or write a single letter in any language.

Huge hordes of Indian villagers continue to rot in an “Stone Age of No Education.”

And it is the leftist politicians who are responsible for this mess. Because of the leftist corruption the funds meant for education of poor indians ends up in the secret Swiss bank accounts of these politicians.

People like Sunny need to wake up to the reality of the enormous crime that the leftists have committed on India.

Onbviously Sunny despite all your pretensions of impartiality you do exhibit this typical snotty Hindi-Punjabi behaviour. Not every Maharashtrian is a Shiv Sainik. Heck this state your “secular” Congress govenment, our friends Gujjus on other hand.. oh well…

Why waste money on that book when its available for free on the internet.